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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 12, 2011 - Dec 19, 2011

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life cover

1. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin Elias Pete Seligman

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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl – The Riveting New York Times Bestseller About Medical Arrogance and Personal Triumph (P.S.) cover

2. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl – The Riveting New York Times Bestseller About Medical Arrogance and Personal Triumph (P.S.)

by John Colapinto

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

3. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder cover

4. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder

by Rudy von Bitter Rucker

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Statistics cover

5. Statistics

by David Freedman

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Calculus and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

6. Calculus and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Michael C. Gemignani

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High Performance Discovery In Time Series: Techniques and Case Studies (Monographs in Computer Science) cover

7. High Performance Discovery In Time Series: Techniques and Case Studies (Monographs in Computer Science)

by Dennis Elliott Shasha, Yunyue Zhu

Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy cover

8. Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy

by Ken Follett

Why We Nap: Evolution, Chronobiology, and Functions of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep cover

9. Why We Nap: Evolution, Chronobiology, and Functions of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep

by Claudio Stampi

The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies cover

10. The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies

by David Wilcock

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) cover

11. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

by Seth Godin

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Major Account Sales Strategy cover

12. Major Account Sales Strategy

by Neil Rackham

Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters cover

13. Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters

by David D. Friedman

The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law cover

14. The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

by Ward Farnsworth

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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

15. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth cover

16. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor

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Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar cover

17. Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar

The Incompetent Teacher: Managerial Responses (Stanford Series on Education and Public Policy) cover

18. The Incompetent Teacher: Managerial Responses (Stanford Series on Education and Public Policy)

by Edwin M. Bridges

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

19. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

20. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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